Note: Each year’s index score is based on data from the previous year.

E&Y Globalization Index Score

Ranks a country's international business integration based on five categories: openness to trade; capital movements; exchange of technology and ideas; labor movements; and cultural integration. The index measures globalization relative to that nation's GDP, rather than by its absolute value. (Higher score is more integrated)

Note: Each year’s index score is based on data from the previous year.

Index of Economic Freedom

The Index of Economic Freedom determines whether individuals in a country are free to work, produce, consume, and invest without being constrained by the state. Scale ranks countries on a basis of 1-100, with 100 representing the greatest amount of economic autonomy from government intervention.